Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-25
NEWS FROM FAIRMONT.
\ Wedding in High Lire-Items of General
and Personal Interest.

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Special TtegTGm tOtte SnaIay Register.
FAIRMoNT, w. Va, September 2I.-
Cards are out announcing the marriage Of
Miss Zoa Lowe, of this county, and Mr..
James &. Burdette, of Grafton, at the
Baptist Church in Boothsyille, this county,
on Monday next, the 2Sth inst, at three
o'clock p. IN. The bride is a charming
woman, a daughter OF Hon. Robert Lowe,
and sister of Mrs. NJ. w. Hall, formerly
of Wheeling, and beside her numerous
friends here, has a host of friends and ac-
quaintances in Wheeling who will doubt
less be interested in this announcement.
County Clerk Carpenter was on the sick
list this week, and was confined to his bed
on Thursday.
Contractor Cunningham is pushing the
work on the new Pawpaw bridge, and will
soon have it completed and ready for
travel. County Court will hold special
session on the 4th proXimo to take up and
pay for this bridge and the stonework for
same, and to arrange for building some
other new bridges and establishing some
more roads.
Capt. II. f. Wood, of Fluvanna county,
Virginia was visitor to our town this
week.
Miss Cora Comerford, the handsome and
pleasant daughter OF DR.. NJ. NJ. Comerford,
gave very delightful party to large
number of her young friends last Saturday
evening, that being the eighteenth ami
versary of her birthday. The affair was
quite recherche.
Thomas w. Mercer, a citizen Of Pawpaw
district of this county, was taken to the
Asylum at Weston this week, suffering
from a mental arrangement produced by
too hard study of religious matters. He
is most exemplary young man, and 1t is
to he hoped that he will soon regain his
mental equilibrium. Apropos to this we
wish to remark that there arc not great
many of our citizens likely 20 suffer from
similar causes.
Mr.. Gus. VockrOdt, wife and son, will
leave for their home in Pittshurg next
Monday.
Senator Camden, wife and son, Col. W.
p. Thompson and wife, Lieut.. Spillman
and wife, Miss Morgan and Mr.. Moore
Jackson, were quartered at thu Mountain
City House, Wednesday. The ladies, ac-
companied by Mr.. Camden, Jr., and Lieut..
Splllman, left for Parkersburg, and the
other gentlemen remained to take another
glimpse of our coal fields.
The enrolment at the Normal school
continues to increase, and the number
now here is upwards of 100, number un-
precedented in the history of the institu.
ton. The Normal deserves more success
than ever and it seems to be meeting with
it this year.
Biggs Nuzum, Of the clerical force Of
the Cincinnati Post Office is at home visit
ing his father and other relatives and
friends.
1t sounds funny to people hereabouts
who know few things to hear the ''other"
newspapers talk about politics and job
berry so very close upon the heels of Mr..
Dunlap's resignation. Such things ought
not be even hinted at, much less talked
about in newspapers.
VIM. y. Bebout and wife, of Washing
ton County, Pa, are visiting their son,
Alex. Bebout, the hardware man.
Miss Jennie r. Scott of Mannington, Is
visiting in town this week.
Earl, a young son OF Circuit Clerk
Smith, was i'll for few days this week.
Fordyce Headley, one of our citizens,
will remove with his family to Manning
ton in few days.
The mines hereabouts paid out SIS, 900
last Saturday.
Miss Cora Ogden left this week for
Clarksburg, where she will attend Broad
dus Female College the coming term.
Our Professor, T. c. Miller, is being
''histed' for Congress from this district.
Mr.. Miller is an accomplished teacher and
an upright honorable gentleman, but he
will not do for Congress, at all, at all, and
We trust that instead of him we'll have
the blessed privilege of "wipiDg OUT
some veteran candidate whose cheek is
harder, whose sensibilities are not so ten
der and who has already stood the rub
enough to become eallous.
Secretary Staggers has been busy this
week arranging for the October Fair. The
speed entries will be something rare, and
the class Of horses will be far superior to
any ever here before. Prominent men
from different parts of the country will be
here to contribute to the success OF the
Fair, and arrangements are on foot to
make race between the Indians and a
good running horse. The Fair will be a
daisv for aura